Safety and user guide
Before using your wood-fired sauna oven, read carefully and follow this important safety and user guide:
1. Safety Precautions
- Ventilation: Ensure the sauna room is properly ventilated to allow for safe combustion and to prevent the build-up of harmful gases such as carbon monoxide. Check that all ventilation grids aren’t blocked from inside or outside.
- Fire Safety: Keep flammable materials, such as towels, clothing, aromas, and shoes, away from the stove. Never leave the fire unattended.
- Supervision: Always supervise children and inexperienced users when the sauna oven is in operation.
- Fire Extinguisher: Have a fire extinguisher or a bucket of water nearby in case of emergencies.
- Health: If you have any health conditions, consult with a physician before using the sauna.
- Intoxication: Don’t use the sauna when intoxicated by alcohol or drugs.
2. Lighting the Wood Burning Sauna Stove
Open Air Vents
- Ensure the air intake vent at the base of the sauna stove is fully open to allow sufficient airflow for combustion.
Starting the Fire
- Place small, dry kindling and a few fire starters at the base of the firebox.
- Light the fire starters with a match or lighter.
- Gradually add larger pieces of dry wood as the fire strengthens.
- Once the fire is well-established, you can close the air intake vent.
- Keep the sauna stove closed at all times.
3. Heating Up the Sauna
Initial Heating Phase
- Allow the fire to burn for 45-60 minutes to heat the sauna air and stones and bring the room to the desired temperature (typically between 70°C and 100°C).
Adjusting the Temperature
- Add more wood to the fire as needed to maintain a steady heat.
- Control the airflow by adjusting the air vent. More airflow results in a hotter fire, while less airflow reduces the heat.
- Monitor the fire throughout your sauna session, adding wood as necessary to maintain the heat. Use only the provided wood for efficient burning.
- Caution: Open the stove door slowly to prevent smoke from escaping into the sauna room.
4. Sauna “Aufguss” Creating Steam
- Use the ladle to pour small amounts of water over the sauna stones to create steam, being careful not to get your hands too close to the steam.
- Use only tap water, NOT pool water.
- Never put aroma concentrates on the sauna stones; aroma is always added to the water in the bucket in the proportion indicated on the aroma bottle.
- Never put herbs, food, beer, any alcohol, fruits/juices, sausages, or anything other than clean water on the sauna stones.
- Do not pour excessive water at once, as this can result in a sharp increase in humidity and heat.
- Do not pour more water than the stones can vaporize; if water drops to the floor, this means too much water has been used, or the stones aren’t hot enough anymore.
- Never pour water into the wood-burning compartment of the stove.
5. Sauna Session
- Enter the sauna and sit on the benches. Stay in the sauna for 10-15 minutes at a time, exiting to cool off in between sessions.
- Repeat this process as desired.
- For the last session, you don’t need to add any wood; the sauna stones will keep the heat for a longer time.
6. The END, Closing Up the Sauna
- At the end of the sauna use, keep the door of the sauna trailer and changing room open to ventilate the sauna and get hot air and humidity out.
- Don’t leave the fire unattended until the fire is out; keep the sauna oven door closed.
- Don’t leave wet towels or clothes on the benches or floor.
- Empty the water buckets outside.
- Close the door with the provided lock when the fire is out and the temperature is less than 50°C.
- Check that nobody is inside before locking.